The Nepal floods have become one of the deadliest disasters in the region after a powerful flash flood swept through communities near the Nepal-China border. The latest reports put the death toll at more than 600, while nearly 3,000 people remain missing across Nepal and Tibet. The disaster was linked to an ice-rock avalanche in…
Russia has escalated its warnings against Britain, saying British military targets could be attacked in response to Ukraine’s use of British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles against Russian territory. The latest warning comes days after Britain agreed to share classified technical information with Ukraine to help it eventually produce its own version of the long-range missile. Why…
President Masoud Pezeshkian is making a fresh diplomatic push as Iran pushes Muslim unity, while Qatar prepares to send its prime minister to Tehran in an attempt to restart talks between Iran and the United States. The two developments point to a wider shift in the conflict. While Tehran remains firmly opposed to US and…
The US-Iran war is entering another difficult phase, with the conflict now putting pressure on both Washington’s military infrastructure and its diplomatic strategy. New reporting says Iranian missile and drone strikes caused unprecedented damage to US intelligence facilities and surveillance equipment across the Middle East, with repairs expected to cost billions of dollars. At the…
The race for the FIFA presidency has taken a dramatic turn after UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin ruled himself out of challenging Gianni Infantino, while warning that the FIFA chief could still face an opponent in the 2027 election. Ceferin said he was not interested in replacing Infantino because he wants to continue working at UEFA…
The U.S. South Korea military drills are facing another setback as Washington cancels a major amphibious exercise, raising questions about how the Iran war is affecting America’s military commitments in Asia. The U.S. Marine Corps cancelled the September Ssangyong exercise, a division-level amphibious landing drill involving American and South Korean forces. Seoul’s Marine Corps said…
Artificial intelligence is becoming part of everyday life, but a recent Omaha bank robbery shows just how far that reality now extends. A 23-year-old Nebraska man, Deron Lewis-Payne, has been sentenced to 121 months in federal prison after investigators found that he used ChatGPT to plan an armed bank robbery. The case is unusual because…
Georgia’s decision to reject the latest EU sanctions on Iran is more than a disagreement over one sanctions package. It is another sign that Tbilisi is becoming increasingly willing to put its own economic and strategic interests ahead of closer alignment with European foreign policy. The Georgian government declined to join the European Union’s latest…
A six-month-old mystery involving three missing Iranian pilots has suddenly become a new source of tension between Iran and Qatar, with Tehran now accusing Doha of secretly holding the men after their fighter jets were shot down in March. The accusation is serious because it is no longer simply about missing military personnel. Iran is…
The DR Congo Ebola outbreak has reached a worrying stage, with health authorities preparing 70,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine as the country battles its largest Ebola epidemic on record. The emergency response comes as confirmed Ebola cases in DR Congo have passed 5,000, with more than 2,400 deaths reported. The outbreak, which was declared…
